Cloud-based collaboration and mobile integrations change the way business is done on jobsites.
Bowmer & Kirkland (B&K) is a construction and engineering group made up of 26 companies spread across three continents – Europe, North America and the Middle East, employing a staff of over 1,300.
In response to the new demands of the construction industry, B&K sought a file collaboration technology where employees could access and share content across multiple time zones. B&K wanted to achieve “value engineering”.
Egnyte was chosen ahead of Huddle and Dropbox was because it provided multiple deployment models of its Enterprise File Services solution. One of those models is Egnyte’s hybrid cloud solution which bi-directionally syncs local storage systems with the cloud. Through the use of Egnyte’s platform, B&K has “one version of the truth” at all times giving each of the 26 companies in the group autonomy as they have the choice to decide what files should be kept on the local network and what files can be shared in the cloud with external contractors.
